Monumentum
Three-register tauroctony from Acbunar
Two fragments of a yellowish marble tauroctony from Acbunar, Moesia Inferior, divided into three registers by two horizontal rims; the upper registers carry subsidiary Mithraic scenes.
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The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Two fragments of a yellowish marble relief. Bucarest, National Museum.Parvan in AAcRom. 1914, 514, 3 (545, 3) and Pl. VIII, 2. See fig. 634, a–b. LeRoy Campbell in Berytus XI, 1954, 50 No. 356.The relief is divided into three parts by two horizontal rims. In the centre Mithras as a bullkiller. On the smaller fragment (H. 0.15–0.13 Br. 0.09–0.07 D. 0.03; Inv. No. L 952):1) Part of the bull in a small boat.2) A person in Oriental dress kneeling before the rock. He presses his r.h. against his forehead.3) A lying ram and a dog above it.4) Above 3 a bull in a small house…
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